Cosmic lens lets astronomers zoom in on a black hole’s burps
Seeing into the heart of a faraway galaxy could explain how jets of hot material get their start
REACHING OUT Many supermassive black holes shoot jets of hot material thousands of light-years into space, like this one emerging from the galaxy M87 about 50 million light-years away. Now scientists have seen the beginnings of such a jet from a galaxy billions of light-years away.
Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI), NASA, ESA
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